Signal Hill Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Signal Hill, California, Signal Hill Elementary hosts 599 students from grades K through 5, part of Long Beach Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 29% above typical.

Within Long Beach Unified, which oversees 82 schools and 62,255 students, Signal Hill Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Signal Hill Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 22% Asian, 14% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Signal Hill Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Signal Hill Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 28.2%; actual is 50.0%, +21.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Signal Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Alvarado Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Signal Hill Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Signal Hill Elementary has contracted 19%, going from 737 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 today.

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